SHAKESPEARE

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Video recording of a live event in which Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells talk about their new edition of the Shakespeare sonnets, followed by a Q&A. Their book includes 182 sonnets rather than only the...

Players and the Publishers, The (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 1

Series

Thinking Shakespeare Live: Infinite Book

Series of four video lectures by Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director at The Old Globe in San Diego, on aspects of Shakespeare’s work and how it relates to contemporary theatre productions. This first...

Manufacturing the Big Book (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 2

Series

Thinking Shakespeare Live: Infinite Book

Series of four video lectures by Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director at The Old Globe in San Diego, on aspects of Shakespeare’s work and how it relates to contemporary theatre productions. This second...

One Play, Many Versions (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 3

Series

Thinking Shakespeare Live: Infinite Book

Series of four video lectures by Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director at The Old Globe in San Diego, on aspects of Shakespeare’s work and how it relates to contemporary theatre productions. This third...

Imagination: Midsummer Musings (2021 Video)

Series

How to Live Like Shakespeare: Colloquies on Renaissance Wisdom

First in a series of video lectures in which Julia Lupton and co-host Sean Keilen pick key passages from Shakespeare to discuss what they reveal about life and living. This edition focuses on Theseus’...

David McInnis and Matthew Steggle Discuss ‘Shakespeare and Lost Plays’ (2021 Video)

Video recording of a live book launch in which David McInnis Talks to Matthew Steggle about his new book on the hundreds of works that would have been familiar to Shakespeare’s original audiences but that...

On the Shakespeare Trail (2021 Multimedia, Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Peter Holland on the topic of trailers made to promote Shakespeare films and plays, looking at how they are structured and edited. The lecture includes an...

Bea Webster and Charlotte Arrowsmith (2021 Video)

Series

Interval Drinks

Video podcast. Bea Webster interviews Charlotte Arrowsmith about her career as an actor and director. Arrowsmith discusses playing Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida for the RSC in 2018 and on using British...

Where the Infectious Pestilence Did Reign: Plague in Shakespeare’s London (2021 Video)

Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London) on how successive plagues in Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, and the memory of plagues, affected Londoners,...

Fashioning the Text (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 4

Series

Thinking Shakespeare Live: Infinite Book

Series of four video lectures by Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director at The Old Globe in San Diego, on aspects of Shakespeare’s work and how it relates to contemporary theatre productions. This fourth...